Re: [PATCH 0/19] kconfig patches

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > If you call "make oldconfig", you have to restore the symlink manually.
> 
> Why?  What advantage does that have?
> 
> I've been using the copy-it-there approach for maybe four years and have
> yet to notice any problem with it.

Pretty much every other tool removes the old file before or after creating 
the new file. This allows it to work with a hardlinked tree, which 
unfortunately is currently broken for other reasons in kbuild.

Could you send me link or a copy of your build tools, which deals with the 
symlink?

bye, Roman
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